What’s Trending On Facebook? Users In U.S., U.K., Canada, India, Australia Can Now Answer That
Facebook Thursday began the rollout of a new, Twitter-like feature called Trending, which it began testing last August, adding a list of topics that have “spiked in popularity” to the right-hand side of users’ News Feeds. The social network said Trending began rolling out Thursday in the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, and Australia, adding that it is also testing a mobile version of the feature.
Facebook Thursday began the rollout of a new, Twitter-like feature called Trending, which it began testing last August, adding a list of topics that have “spiked in popularity” to the right-hand side of users’ News Feeds. The social network said Trending began rolling out Thursday in the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, and Australia, adding that it is also testing a mobile version of the feature.
The Wall Street Journal reported last August that Facebook was testing a Trending module in News Feed, which Facebook confirmed with the following statement to the newspaper:
We are running a small test of a unit on News Feed.
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